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Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Ken Petri, the Director of the Web Accessibility Center at The Ohio State University, about the accessibility of eBooks and eBook readers.Â Ken is incredibly knowledgeable on the topic and offered a great deal of information during the interview.Â It’s about 25 minutes in length, so I strongly encourage you to download the file before listening due to it’s size.Â Ken provided us with a great list of resources for various aspects of eBook accessibility, which are below.Â Thanks Ken!

CWRU Chemistry and Computer Science students will use the new Kindle to access textbooks in Fall ’09.Â Â See the full article in either the Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 6, 2009 or The WSJ, May 5, 2009. Amazon has worked a deal with publishers to load the textbook content on the Kindle, which will be “supplied” to students.Â Nothing in the articles about costs…

The other universities are:Â Pace, Princeton, Reed, Darden School at the University of Virginia, and Arizona State.

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